Justices Deny Petition Challenging Security Clearance Revocation for Marriage to Muslim

Denying a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency financial analyst’s petition, the U.S. Supreme Court Dec. 9 decided not to review a lower court’s dismissal of his claim that the revocation of his security clearance because of his wife’s Islamic associations violated his constitutional rights (Hegab v. Long, U.S., No. 13-256).

Because review of a federal agency’s decision to revoke a security clearance is prohibited by Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit precedent, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted the NGA defendants’ motion to dismiss Mahmoud Hegab’s complaint for lack of ...